Danny Pantuso

Investor

Based in Chicago, Danny invests in pre-seed, seed, and early-stage companies across the Midwest.

Prior to joining Mucker, Danny worked for two years in Iceland, first as a product manager and later as a founder. After a small exit, he moved to Chicago where he led product at Fubo Sportsbook and most recently worked at Decasonic Ventures focusing on web3, gaming, and AI.

Danny holds a BS in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Danny can be reached at danny at mucker dot com.

Articles by Danny Pantuso

Why More Funding Won’t Magically Fix Your Startup

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch. Some entrepreneurs think that (more) money will solve all their company’s problems. It won’t. Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity...

Thriving As A Post-Coronavirus Startup

This post originally appeared in Forbes. Startups are uncertain, high-risk exercises under any circumstance. When investors make available capital, it’s possible to mitigate some of that risk by extending runway...

COVID-19

Our team at Mucker is honored to support our portfolio through the unprecedented set of challenges facing the global community with COVID-19. Here is a compilation of products, services, and...

Venture Capital for the Rest of Us

The seed from which Mucker grew came forth from the ripples of the Great Recession As the rest of the tech world flooded toward Silicon Valley in search of millions...

William Hsu on TenOneTen’s LA Venture Podcast

Earlier this month, Will joined David Waxman and Minnie Ingersoll from TenOneTen for their fourth episode of the LA Venture podcast series. You can listen to the full episode here....

Building Company Culture, Before It’s Too Late

When I was leading my last business, I always knew that company culture was important. But what I needed to do about it and when to do it was a...

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